The first research in robotics were initiated in the early ’60s. After a substantial boom in industrial robotics applications, especially in the automotive industry in the early ’90s were non-industrial applications in multiple accounts Of these applications we want to attract attention, more so as it was estimated that robotics will play an important role in restructuring the millennium civilization. This statement can be easily supported by some statistical data contained in the last report (2001) of the IFR (International Federation of Robotics).
Thus, in 2000 were 98,700 units put into service robots, the total number reaching 749,800 units, and total market value corresponding to this area was estimated at 5.7 billion U.S. dollars. Statistics on the types of robots show significant increases in the number suggestive robots that respond to non-industrial applications. If the number of units installed during 2000 reached112,500 at the end of 2004 it is estimated that their number will reach almost 625,000.
This development, even spectacular, in the direction of non-industrial applications justify reviewing among the main sub below unmanufactured robots or robots that can find use. These service areas are construction, rehabilitation of sick, trade, transport and movement of goods, local government, environmental protection and agriculture, supervision, inspection, radiation protection and disaster interventions, hotels and restaurants, medical, household, hobby and leisure.